Photo credit: Wikipedia Apapa happens to be a district of sea ports in Nigeria. It has at least three major sea ports. The first one is the well known Apapa ports, second is the Tin Can Island ports and the third is the Lillypond Terminal in Ijora. It also used to be a bubbling industrial…
Photo credit; National Assembly We Nigerians are not in any way giving respect to those who should be respected. It might not be our fault, however. It could be because of the fact that certain things are strange to us. We are not used to them. Take a look at some busy bodies heckling to…
Considering the goings on in Nigeria, I just feel it is not too late for us to get down to the brass tacks before electing the next tenant of Aso Rock. In the first instance, the candidate must not have been handpicked by a so-called godfather. In fact, if I had my way, I would…
Photo credit: Challenge graphics Why won’t I like Mr Buhari? His is a government that brushes everything and everyone aside as far as they aren’t disturbing their arrant corruption and nepotism. Have you noticed the criminal silence of government to evils going on in the society? Yes! We voted for them and they’ve decided to…
Photo credit: Premium Times Why are we like this? I can still remember Prof. Wole Soyinka’s words that, ‘A tiger does not proclaim its tigritude, he pounces’. That could be used to describe Nigerian politicians, most of whom are non performing. Their lethargy is very apparent in the non provision of basic things for the…
Photo credit: Vanguard Gbadamosi Adegoke Adelabu (3rd September, 1915 to 25th March, 1958) was a prominent politician in Ibadan city and then the Western region before Nigeria became independent in 1960. On a certain occasion, he described the opposition in the Western Region House of Assembly as ‘peculiar mess’. However, his generally illiterate audience thought…
Photo credit: the independent It’s today I’m confirming the journalism maxim, “when a dog bites a man, it’s nothing unusual. But when a man bites a dog, it’s newsworthy.” On my story, what I’m showing now appears to be a man who’s naked but turning his back. I don’t really know what people were expecting…
